B&W Outtakes - DPChallenge Forums

Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Nikon

06/03/2002 11:54:48 AM · #26

Like the DOF on the latter, with the oars leaning against the wall.

Originally posted by Kimbly:
Swallow's Buoy and The Andi - took this one the day before the challenge started :-P

Lobster pot and rowboat - tried to replicate above, but the buoy was in the water and I just wasn't satisfied with this one.

FranziskaLang

Nikon D100

06/03/2002 12:05:50 PM · #27

thanks for all your feedback. i'm very happy with the shot i submitted, but i'm interested in how many totally opposite comments i will get (two out of three already totally contradict each other). the reason i didn't submit the other ones:

i actually had the daisy submitted all week and then changed it sunday afternoon. my husband never liked that one and in the end i liked my final submission better. maybe i should've submitted and got those cute baby/flower voters on my side! :P

the rope was an attempt to recreate a shot i took the week before (don't you hate it when that happens) and just didn't come out the way i wanted it to.

finally, the bumble bee (my husband's favorite) just is so much nicer in color and square format (color bumblebee) and has not enough contrast in b&w i think.

jmsetzler

Sony Alpha a6000

Sony 16-50mm f/3.5-5.6 E-mount

06/03/2002 12:06:38 PM · #28

I wish my tossouts were that good :)

06/03/2002 12:08:12 PM · #29

hmmm .. well, i like the color bee, but i thought the bw bee had tons of contrast and an astounding amt of detail. oh well, im sure what you submitted was equally splendiferous!

Originally posted by gr8photos:
finally, the bumble bee (my husband's favorite) just is so much nicer in color and square format (color bumblebee) and has not enough contrast in b&w i think.

irae

Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 I

06/03/2002 12:24:36 PM · #30

Originally posted by Patella:
I bet you would have had at least one person say, "This isn't B&W, just shades of grey..." Well, duh! That's what B&W photography is -- otherwise it'd just be photocopies....

I agree that B/W image containing no pure black or white can work to express a certain mood, or give a period feel to an image. High and low key techniques (where one or the other is dominant) work, too, obviously. In general, though, I don't think that's what people really mean when they complain about "just shades of gray". In most B/W, contrast plays an important part. In flat lighting, or with the wrong combination of colors, it can be really hard to get good results.

Kimbly

Canon PowerShot G2

06/03/2002 12:25:33 PM · #31

Originally posted by magnetic9999:
Like the DOF on the latter, with the oars leaning against the wall.

The "wall" is the bottom of the rowboat, actually, which is another reason I wasn't happy with that one...people who weren't familiar with my family's watercraft wouldn't recognize it.

langdon

Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM

06/03/2002 12:25:50 PM · #32

Originally posted by hokie:
my outtakes

How'd you do the white text with the black text shadow one?

FranziskaLang

Nikon D100

Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Nikon

06/03/2002 12:31:40 PM · #33

Kimbly, I like them both, but I actually like the Lobster pot shot better!

Originally posted by Kimbly:
Swallow's Buoy and The Andi - took this one the day before the challenge started :-P

Lobster pot and rowboat - tried to replicate above, but the buoy was in the water and I just wasn't satisfied with this one.

lmhr

Canon EOS-300D Rebel

Canon EF 28-200 f/3.5 - 5.6 USM

06/03/2002 12:36:07 PM · #34

very cool! I liked a lot too. I'm sad ´cause I couldn't post mine, I had log in problems, but I'm doing it here, to see what you guys think.

saludos,

LM

hokie

Nikon D2X

Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 17-55mm f/2.8G IF-ED

06/03/2002 12:57:12 PM · #35

Originally posted by langdon:

How''d you do the white text with the black text shadow one?

I went to photoshop..picked a font shape ans size (can''t remember which)

Made one straight white print. Then I went into photoshop and made the "black" type, angled, stretched, lighted and sized it all with the intention of using the "white" letters as cut-outs.

I was thinking those big "HOLLYWOOD" letters in L.A. but I have always been fascinated in seeing those hollywood special effect where a person casts a shadow that is different. But you sado-masochistic freaks make us do everything in camera...grrrrrr.... >:-/

Then it was a matter of printing the "black" shadow art, cutting out the white letters, setting the letters up on the "black" print and lighting it in such a way as to get even, shadowless lighting (didn''t want shadows off the white 3-D letters because I already had my spotlights, shadows etc ''PRINTED" on the black letter paper.

Put a slight curl to the "black " printed art at the back to get a soft backlight effect and ...VOILA!!

Forget to mention..I had to light the white letters in photoshop because I knew I would not be using and "REAL" spotlights and I needed to mimic my printed art lighting. I could not use perfect white letters..they had to be "pre-lit".

This was a very time consuming piece but ultimately I didn''t use it. Why? who knows..not like there were 30 other white/black montage set-ups entered :-)

* This message has been edited by the author on 6/3/2002 1:05:34 PM.

vin rigby

Panasonic DMC-FZ30

06/03/2002 01:08:03 PM · #36

I liked the rope shot from the week before - good cropping and better contrast and the bumble bee shots are terrific.

Vin

Originally posted by gr8photos:

the rope was an attempt to recreate a shot i took the week before (don't you hate it when that happens) and just didn't come out the way i wanted it to.

finally, the bumble bee (my husband's favorite) just is so much nicer in color and square format (color bumblebee) and has not enough contrast in b&w i think.

vin rigby

Panasonic DMC-FZ30

06/03/2002 01:14:19 PM · #37

IMHR, your pc did not appear!

Vin

Originally posted by lmhr:
very cool! I liked a lot too. I'm sad ´cause I couldn't post mine, I had log in problems, but I'm doing it here, to see what you guys think.

saludos,

LM

Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Nikon

06/03/2002 01:43:21 PM · #38

Because I *know* that no one is sick of looking at black and white pictures ;) , here are *my* EXCITING not-used pictures for the challenge.

Comments always welcomed and appreciated : )

mags bw reject pile

FranziskaLang

Nikon D100

06/03/2002 01:51:23 PM · #39

That donkey is hilarious! :)

Originally posted by magnetic9999:
Because I *know* that no one is sick of looking at black and white pictures ;) , here are *my* EXCITING not-used pictures for the challenge.

Comments always welcomed and appreciated : )

mags bw reject pile

justine

Canon EOS-50D

Canon EF 28-135mm F/3.5-5.6 IS USM

06/03/2002 02:01:01 PM · #40

Originally posted by jmsetzler:
My outtakes for the B&W challenge are HERE.

HA! love the Levi's! Great. :) I would of given that a 9 too clever.

justine

Canon EOS-50D

Canon EF 28-135mm F/3.5-5.6 IS USM

06/03/2002 02:01:43 PM · #41

Originally posted by hokie:
My outtakes are not really outtakes. I liked these fine as well.

These are simply OTHER black and white photos I thought about entering. I tried several ideas. Liked most of them but you gotta choose something :-)

my outtakes
These are good Hokie. Very nice.

tlalonde

Nikon D3200

Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 70-300mm f/4.0-5.6G

06/03/2002 08:03:53 PM · #42

Can I get on the bandwagon? I know these are bad, that's why they are rejects.

Thom's Rejects

Canon EF-S 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS

06/03/2002 08:29:59 PM · #43

those are "bad" ?????? meeps!

Originally posted by conceptgraphics:
Can I get on the bandwagon? I know these are bad, that's why they are rejects.

Thom's Rejects

KarenB

Canon EOS-70D

06/03/2002 09:11:08 PM · #44

Originally posted by conceptgraphics:
Can I get on the bandwagon? I know these are bad, that's why they are rejects.

Thom's Rejects

You are crazy to think these are rejects! I liked the piano and the person walking along the path. Have to say that the donut shot sort-a freaked me out... in a humorous, chilling sort of way!
;-)

I have my "rejects" along with some others....let's see if I can get this link to work: My Px

KarenB

Canon EOS-70D

Canon EF-S 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS

06/03/2002 09:16:21 PM · #45

P.S.
"Rejects" used lightly... "Rejects for this site", but I like them. :-)

hokie

Nikon D2X

Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 17-55mm f/2.8G IF-ED

06/03/2002 09:54:13 PM · #46

Originally posted by kee:

These are good Hokie. Very nice.

Thanks :-)

I had that "Snoopy is Groov'n" as my entry up until Sunday. But I don't like having pictures of me being judged. It just weirds me out. It's all I could do to have my eyes in the last contest. So I was happy to send this one to the "rejects" pile when a new shot presented itself. :-)

chariot

Olympus C-3030Z

06/03/2002 10:15:05 PM · #47

I really prefer to post the outtakes after the voting is done, especially since some of my outtakes tend to be very similar, but I do have this one that was a real loser.

Dead Fish

I also have another b&w photo that I really liked and I was considering going back to the same location and shooting it again.

It is here: Wicked Forest

Next week I will post some outtakes that are different angles of my same subject.

* This message has been edited by the author on 6/3/2002 10:15:47 PM.

iggy386

Nikon D600

Nikon AF-S Zoom-Nikkor 24-85mm f/3.5-4.5G IF-ED

06/04/2002 08:53:08 PM · #48

Originally posted by clubjuggle:
Originally posted by lecook:
[i]i didn''t submit any of these...be interested to know whatcha think :o)

aw, forget it, i can''t make a link to save my life!!!

Try clicking the globe icon in the right hand corner of the reply screen, then replace the text that appears with the address of your picture and the text you want to show in the link.
[/i]

I''m glad you posted that... Now I''ll try to put up a link to my outtakes...

Outtakes I hope

I really liked the first one but I didnt think there was enough contrast between the subject and background so I didn''t use. I''d appreciate any comments. I''m new at this!

* This message has been edited by the author on 6/4/2002 8:54:04 PM.